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Potty-mouthed female (she/her) of modest human capital. Feminist. Reproductive rights advocate. Socialist. Living with invisible disability. Freelance web developer. Living in Treaty 7 territory (AKA Alberta, Canada). Shovel your way out of the shit.
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Serious question: How can the Canadian Press continue allowing Postmedia to use its wire stories after making unauthorized changes to stories that run under its journalists bylines like this?

A new data analysis finds the National Post quietly modified nearly 200 newswire articles since Oct. 7 to push a pro-Israel narrative. Jason Toney from @cjpme.org breaks down how the paper edited stories to erase Israeli occupation and frame Palestinians as terrorists.

Is he drunk right now? #usPoli

As of September, there will be more bureaucratic hurdles for guest presenters to speak to Alberta students about sexual health, and sexual orientation and gender identity. Alberta Education must also vet any resource teachers plan to use on these topics: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbEd #AbLeg

Airdrie Mayor Peter Brown, without council's knowledge, and without the knowledge or consent of Airdrie citizens, pursued a private hospital using city resources in concert with a big developer, Qualico, and with the premier's advisor Rob Anderson, who is unelected. There should be a public inquiry.

Bombshell story via @brettmckay.bsky.social about how Airdrie mayor Peter Brown and staff worked in secret with a developer and the premier's office to get a private hospital using money earmarked for upgrading a public hospital. theijf.org/controversia...

REED: Are you prepared to authorize military forces to detain or arrest American citizens? HEGSETH: Every authorization we've provided the National Guard and Marines in LA is under the authority of the president and lawful REED: So the answer is yes

NEW: Alberta Health Services' former CEO wants a judge to rule on her lawsuit, alleging govt improperly fired her, without going to trial. New court filings allege the Health Minister tried - and failed - to convince the AHS board to fire the CEO. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Good, good. *rubs hands together*

Interesting… The Alberta Order of Excellence awards have been announced. And one of them seems to be the owner of the company that was involved in Lagrange’s mask procurement scandal. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

Carney fights off harsh U.S. authoritarianism with slightly gentler Canadian authoritarianism

Launching a global trade war (increasing US prices in the process), getting rid of vaccines, and sending soldiers into US cities. This is what critics of Trump warned would happen during the campaign. But were told that they were fear mongering.

"Anybody who thinks LLMs are a direct route to the sort [of] AGI that could fundamentally transform society for the good is kidding themselves."

WATCH LIVE ▶ Alberta New Democrat House Leader Christina Gray and I expose UCP Cabinet Ministers and constituency associations conspiring with separatist organizers: youtube.com/live/i9xsETk...

Is anyone asking Carney what he plans to cut to meet his planned $10B in additional warmongering while also aiming for a balanced budget in three years? Because that's not something we're achieving by "finding efficiencies"

And the news reporting is bad too. ABC 7 on livestream saying cops on horseback using sticks to repeatedly beat someone trying to get away from them. Reporter: “you can see these officers are forcefully suggesting he move away.” Forcefully suggesting, that’s a new one.

Every time they say “we can’t afford that,” remember: they could afford armored tanks, a dictators birthday parade, and enough tear gas to choke a city. They just don’t want you fed, safe, or alive.

Waymo stands for “way mo’ of us on fire these days”

Trump reminds Americans he only promised not to start foreign wars

don’t forget: waymos and other robotaxis are surveillance devices on wheels that police are increasingly tapping for footage

Dozens of journalists were assaulted by law enforcement in Los Angeles this weekend. The press were just doing their job -- a sacred one explicitly protected by law. Press rights orgs will follow up collectively tomorrow. Tonight, I emailed evidence to local/state/federal officials. My sign off:

If ICE were acting entirely within the law and maintaining good conditions in all its facilities, they would not be turning Congresspeople away. But they clearly aren't. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/n...

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

"diverted"

Human dignity? Nah. Inherent human rights? Nah. But I guess in MAGA/MAHA world a grifter who built a career on harmful lies & pseudoscience "matters"? Dr. Oz Says People Will Receive Medicaid If They Can ‘Prove That They Matter’ www.thedailybeast.com/dr-oz-says-p... via @thedailybeast.bsky.social

They really do want to just be the new Roman Empire, don't they? Apparently they missed how the first one ended. #usPoli

globalnews.ca/news/1121667... Wow, the sinkhole that has closed the Coquihala was "related to Trans Mountain’s pipeline boring work in the area” Imagine if, say, a solar power plant somehow closed a critical highway like this. It would be 24/7 headline coverage for a week. #DecarbonizeBC

She literally just makes up shit as she goes along. You can't trust a damn word that comes out of her mouth. oecdregionalwellbeing.org/CA48.html #abPoli

Reminder that tear gas is a chemical weapon that is illegal to deploy in warfare, yet cops are allowed to blanket civilians in clouds of the stuff.

www.stalbertgazette.com/beyond-local... A sovereign Alberta would use the US$ as its currency. Because nothing screams sovereignty like using another country's currency.

New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts. But there was a slight hitch. It hallucinated the size of those deals. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

Health Canada has issued a recall for a brand of birth control pills after some packages were packed with extra placebo tablets. The recall covers Seasonale Tablets made by Teva Canada with 0.03 milligrams of ethinylestradiol and 0.15 milligrams of levonorgestrel.

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before: cnn.it/43GWlge

This is fucking bullshit.

Thousands of councillors in more than 500 municipalities have received emails urging them to abandon global climate targets. all coming from a weaponized AI chatbot www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/28/i...

“Nicolaides’ initial claim that complaints about school library books had come from parents concerned about books their kids had access to in schools is a “total misrepresentation of the facts.” “It’s a blatant lie from the minister about what’s happened” www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Trump: "Elon's really not leaving. He's gonna be back and forth."

NEW: An interim report into the ongoing health care procurement scandal that was due to be released today has been delayed until September 24th. #yeg #yyc #ableg